"Once Removed" is a portrait of the time-travelling life of Bassel Abi Chahine, a thirty-one-year-old writer and historian who managed to obtain an unparalleled inventory of extremely rare objects, photographs and interviews related to the People's Liberation Army and Progressive Socialist Party during the Lebanese Civil War. Considering himself a reincarnation of a dead soldier, he has the remarkable ability to recall details from the war, which mostly took place before his lifetime. Abi Chahine embodies the suppressed trauma hidden to his generation.